picking the right routine

I've been doing DC training routine for a few months now. I really like the size gains I've been getting, maninly in my bis, back, and legs. However I've been wanting more of a strength gain than what I feel like I'm getting. I was thinking of transitioning over to rippetoes starting strength I've heard its the best of the strength training routines. However I'm afraid to loose the gains that I've made with DC in size. Should I be worried? Or will the gains stay?

Ex: Legs Squat 5x5, Leg Press 5x5, Calf raise 5x3 or 4 and then you are done, but if you do it right, you will leave it all on the floor.

Pyramids are good as well, but sometimes you just have to go in there and do what your body tells you. You may go in with the 5x5 plan but only do 3 sets of 5 and go harder on the next exercise. You could either do one muscle group once a week or go ahead and hit the same muscle group 2 times a week at different angles

its slow progressive program
its easy to find in the powerlifting section here and if you google it
it a 4 day routine based on the Bench, Squat, Press, and Deadlift
idk how it compares to 5x5 since ive never tried it, but ive been doing 5/3/1 for 6 monthes now

well for me personally its strength goals on the big three and overall hypertrophy so a modified 5/3/1 works pretty well, idk about the OP tho

Modified 5/3/1 works great for strength. My girlfriend is on a similar idea that I have given except we do not use percentages. 5/3/1 are all close to maxes. There is some exercise cycling involved and other things, but it works very well for her. I use the 5/3/1 rep scheme in my training but that is about it. I think reps 5/3/1 offer a lot in training.

ive also been doing a 5X5 strength based routine starting light and adding weight every workout for the last 2 months and made some pretty good gains in both size and strength but i felt squatting 5X5 every other day was too much for my body so i combined it with the 5/3/1 and taylor made it to fit what i think would help me the most.

now that i know the 5X5 works, i can always build off of that.. try everything, and keep what works

Seems like you should have waited to go on DC. I have had massive strength gains like I had never achieved with 5/3/1 or westside template, but I also had a great base strength before starting (except on my squat, which blew ass). I don't know what you guys think is "strong," but from what I've read 5x5 is good to get strong, 5/3/1 is good to get stronger.

DC has just given me size boost. But seing as how ur supposed to use machines instead of many of the main lifts I've been losing strength in those. And my squat also sucked. What's the opinion on using 5/3/1 template for the 4 main lifts and doing DC style negative, rest pausing, beating the logbook and extreme stretches for accesory lifts such as iso movements back movements etc?

the key of 5/3/1 is that the main movements are the most important.
ALL your other work is pretty much unimportant and should be used to bring up weak points in strength, size, what have you. Play around and keep what works. I say try it for a few cycles and see if your recovering and progressing well.

the key of 5/3/1 is that the main movements are the most important.
ALL your other work is pretty much unimportant and should be used to bring up weak points in strength, size, what have you. Play around and keep what works.

Yeah, and I think this is one of the reasons I didn't have great success with max effort work in the past - I didn't always attack my weak points (I did sometimes, but mostly by chance more than anything). So if possible I would recommend you lift with a spotter who will be able to notice where your form breaks down with harder/heavier lifts. Based on this you can select the appropriate accessory work.

Workout C
Deadlift Protocol
Barbell curls DC style
Chinups 3x5Deadlifts are more hip movement then a back movement so some lower body work would fit better. Ex. Box Jumps, GHR, RDL, Box Squats, also you could use some core work here too

My suggestions are in bold
Id do it in an upper/lower fashion. Try to do as much pulling as pushing for healthy shoulders, same goes for hamstring to quad work.
Also how are you gonna lay this out? 4day a week? 3day? 2day? Overall i like you picks alot

3 day. Are my picks good? I basically want as much strength as possible IME size comes with strength anyway. And then the additional workouts are to build up the right spots. And to keep the girlfriend happy lol she likes definition

I gave you my suggestions in bold above, check them. to get as much strenght as possible you will need to 1) focus on the main lifts "bench, squat, dead, oh press" 2) do extra work to make sure you can maximize the strenth on the main lifts "chins, rows, ghr, core work, ect". Id suggest looking of the template layouts to get a good idea of what is usually recommended for this. I like the perizidation layout and i add some supersets and crap to fit my personal needs at this time, later things will change of course.

box jumps are when you jump to a box, builds explosive strength without over taxing the cns and allows good recovery. you can use weight and what not
ghr are glute ham raises
rdl are romainian deadlifts

and since you wanna add pushups just add them to oh press day or bench day